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Shandon, CA · Food & Drink
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Community Highlights: Meet Joel Huff of Frontside Cafe
Today we’d like to introduce you to Joel Huff. Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?. Chef with over 30 years of experience in the culinary...
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JSB Cafe reopens its doors this fall for the first time in six years
The remodeling of City College’s JSB Cafe is soon to conclude and is set to reopen this fall, the restaurant will provide both experience and quality food for students on campus. The cafe is expected to open its doors in the upcoming weeks after over six years of closure....
The Hollywood Reporter
Does This Erewhon Smoothie Make Me Look Fat?
The most notable thing about the new Erewhon market that recently opened in Thousand Oaks isn’t that it finally lets Ventura residents buy a $21 smoothie without crossing county lines. It’s that it’s the 16th Erewhon. Add two more stores planned for 2027 — in downtown L.A. and Costa Mesa — plus another reportedly in the works at a still-undisclosed location, and you’re at 19. Katie Lee Biegel on Telling the Story of the People Behind Windows on the World Restaurant in CNN Doc Short That’s perilously close to 20, a number that could put a chill in Los Angeles’ long, steamy love affair with the uber-bougie grocery store chain. Indeed, it could send its hipster clientele stampeding back to the valet parking lot. Because federal statute requires that any food-service establishment with 20 or more locations must display the calorie counts for the prepared “restaurant-type” food on their menus. That most definitely includes Erewhon’s luxe steak-and-eggs breakfast burrito with chipotle mayo, which the nutritionists in Rambling’s test kitchens calculate is in the 800- to 900-calorie range. The organic coconut turmeric chicken tenders — made with coconut cream, brown rice flour and non-GMO avocado oil — clock in at upward
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This Remote California Mountain Tavern Serves A Tri-Tip Sandwich That’s Worth The Long Drive
Some sandwiches are lunch, and some sandwiches are a reason to clear your entire Saturday, tell your family you’ll explain later, and point your car toward the Santa Barbara mountains. Cold Spring Tavern, sitting quietly along Stagecoach Road above Santa Barbara, is the kind of place that makes you...
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The Small But Mighty Taco Stand In California That Won Over Julia Child
Here is a fact that should immediately rearrange your weekend plans: one of the greatest food authorities in American history declared a small taco stand in Santa Barbara, California to be her favorite restaurant. That taco stand is La Super-Rica Taqueria, and it has been quietly proving Julia Child right...
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First Impressions of Ancora Osteria
••• I went to Ancora Osteria with friends a couple of weeks ago now, and I imagine at least half of Montecito has already been and formed an opinion, but here are some first impressions anyway. I haven’t sat inside yet, but the restaurant has done as good a job as possible with the awkwardly shaped space, and outside feels cozier and more convivial than you might expect from a penned-off area beside a parking lot. We arrived right after intense sundowners had roared in, dumping leaves all around the terrace and jacking up the heat; the staff handled the situation (and the entire dinner) with aplomb. As for the food, I know that we’re not supposed to make much of the restaurant’s half-sibling relationship with S.Y. Kitchen, but nearly everything we had—the arancini, the pastas, and especially the roast chicken—could’ve come from Santa Ynez. (That’s not remotely a critique.) The pinsas are a little different from S.Y. Kitchen’s pizzas, and while I wouldn’t order one to have all by myself, it was a tasty shared experience. All in all, I’d be shocked if the restaurant isn’t a big hit; the combination of well-executed Italian comfort food and the Upper Village is as sure a bet as I know of. P.S. The menu now has prices.
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11 California Hidden Courtyards Where A Meal Feels Tucked Away From The Whole State
A courtyard meal feels different because the outside world has to wait at the gate. Traffic fades. Voices soften. Light lands on the table like it has better manners there. A hidden California courtyard can make lunch feel like a secret the street forgot to mention. That is the real pull.
VC Star | Ventura County Star
Ventura Harbor project could temporarily close Andria's, other tenants
A construction project at Ventura Harbor could temporarily close Andria’s Seafood Restaurant & Market next year as the harbor builds out commercial fish offloading facilities and modernizes its operations. The plans call for the demolition of a building that includes Andria's back-of-house and office space as well as other tenants. Brian Bargiel, CEO for Andria's Seafood, said the project will affect the business’ 45 employees and could potentially force the restaurant to close. “This closure of an unknown duration will significantly affect us, and yes, it might lead to the closure of Andria’s,” he said of the restaurant, located at 1449 Spinnaker Drive. Todd Mitchell, the port district’s deputy general manager, said officials are exploring ways to reduce the impacts to the restaurant, including adding temporary outdoor facilities and making interior changes. Bids for the project are expected to go out in early 2027, with construction scheduled later that year, said Brian Pendleton, Ventura Port District general manager. On Sept. 2, port district commissioners voted 4-0 to provide $127,500 for development costs related to an interim plan, which will include reducing the effects on Andria’s during construction. Commissioner Chris Stephens was absent. Commissioners also approved sending a letter to the
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The latest: ‘affordable speakeasy omakase’
Restaurateur Kevin Chen keeps renting more neighborhood storefronts. His latest is Yuzu, on Sutter Street near Fillmore, painted, appropriately enough, bright citrus yellow. It’s part takeout counter, part grocery and — in the evening, behind a refrigerator door — a “speakeasy omakase” serving a 12-course tasting menu for $65 at a 10-seat counter. Chen says his seafood purchasing power lets him keep the price unusually low. The goal is omakase without the special occasion price tag — “a very affordable omakase dining experience with a very fun casual setting,” he says.
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CARNE Latin Steakhouse Plans Second Location at West Harbor
A recently opened Oxnard concept is expanding to San Pedro’s waterfront development. According to public filings, CARNE, the Latin fire steakhouse that opened this summer in Oxnard, is planning a second location at West Harbor in San Pedro, at 1332 South Harbor Boulevard, Suite 160. CARNE firts opened in...
FOX 11 Los Angeles
2 SoCal restaurants make Bon Apetit's 'Best New Restaurants' list
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People Drive From All Over California For The Split Pea Soup At This Landmark Buellton Restaurant
Some road trips are built around a single bowl of soup, and this one has drawn travelers off Highway 101 for generations. Tucked along California’s Central Coast, near the windmills of Solvang and the rolling hills of Santa Barbara wine country, sits a landmark that turned a humble green soup into a full-blown destination.
travelmag.com
This Tiny California Barbecue Shack In Paso Robles Smokes Santa Maria Tri-Tip Over Red Oak Every Afternoon
Some of the best meals in California hide in places you would never expect, down quiet roads where cell signal fades and the smell of oak smoke takes over. Tucked into a speck of a town, there is a Western-style steakhouse where beef sizzles over live fire in front of your eyes.
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Collin Harmon: At Milio’s Pizza, One Cheese Slice Says It All
Order the cheese. That’s my rule at any new pizza place, and it has nothing to do with restraint. A cheese slice has nowhere to hide. No toppings doing the heavy lifting, no clever combination to talk about instead of the dough. Just bread, sauce, cheese and whoever made...
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These 8 California Sandwich Shops Serve Tri-Tip Subs Locals Line Up For At Lunch
Tri-tip is a California original, a cut of beef that Central Coast cooks helped make famous over open oak fires. When it lands inside a sandwich, sliced thin and piled on a roll, it turns into one of the best lunches in the state. Across California, small shops and family...